The Sydney Opera House Illusion
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**CREDITS**
Hosted by
Michael Stevens
Edited by
Hannah Canetti
VFX by
Eric Langlay
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Music by Jake Chudnow
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That opening legit made me worried I was having a stroke. Thanks Michael.
Have you ever tried walking twice?
Have yosh ava
Hanen siab e
Have wou eywr
Have you ejwe
Have you ever rkaen
Hake
.gotta say slow
Have you ever taken this many tries to type a sentence? Because I have.
1.2k likes and 2 replies nice(before mine)
MUG cylinDER, for watching. What does that even MEAN! I feel like Zuko talking to Iroh
I still can’t understand it
I have no idea what you were trying to say with that intro
me too I lost him at the ruler
Me too
SAMMEE
I’m pretty sure it was just a joke
He was high 😂
The first 10 seconds: Oh great bad jokes
The next 30 seconds: *Confusion 100*
Mug cylinder for watching.
Paper towels
Ironically, i laughed more in the confusing part more than the puns.
CONFUSION OF DA HIGHEST ORDA
Paper clip pe-n ba-thtub floor ca-toon....
Imagine being outside the Sydney opera house for a vacation and look at the hotel and see Michael just walking back and forth towards the window
That was the immediate visual I got watching this video! 😂 So good
Michael's having a stroke guys
No u
lol
I noticed that too. If you listen to the first 30 seconds without watching the video, it kind of does sound he's having a stroke.
punctuation is overrated
^
Normal people: “Woah what a beautiful view of the Sydney Opera house!”
Michael: “Woah what a beautiful demonstration of the effects of angular size perception!”
Weihuang Ren of course he's not normal, he's special... that's why we love his videos
well he did name the channel dong
This is genius😂😂😂😂
Zinaida Geeva
I'm sure that's not a virus...
Nick Nevco DONG means "Things you can Do Online Now, Guys". Usually the channel DONG is him presenting you with tons of educational and/or fun online, like typically science-related things. Obviously hahah. :)
Micheal forgot the password to Vsauce channel
I think CZcams just owns the rights to it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I bet u he did
The intro is actually part of it. It's like reawakening the Winter soldier, a sleeper agent lol
Hey vsauce Michael here
*puts a window around my male reproductive organ*
Nah, put a microscope around it.
Lmao I thought the same thing
@jordan haas ok...😅😅😅
You that then infer, if you have a smaller one, just have a relationship with someone with really small hands?
You that then
The intro lost me after elephant
The intro was pretty shifty tbh. The rest of the video really made up for it though.
Sometimes you gotta shake em up to keep you on your toes.
Thank God he didn't bring a real elephant tho
Yeah it was pretty good until he said that lol
Same
The Opera House wasn't actually an illusion, it was actually growing and consuming everything in its path. Australia is being dominated by a giant slug-like opera house.
don't forget about the drop bears mate
That was strawberry jam.
Hello my saviour
ViIvaNunner Idk where your info. It’s obviously a giant opera house-shaped slug
ViIvaNunner that’s what the lizard people don’t want us to know
5:26 You can break the illusion by looking at the point directly between the two dots.
69th like after 1 year. I had to notify you
not really
@@proffesionalweredog7426
Well, everyone except you can, I guess.
@@guulkrul grats!
98th like after 2 years.
Which of these circles looks bigger?
Me an intellectual: the black ones on the left.
Lol
Me: his mouth
That was exactly what I did! And I did it because I thought the circles in the middle were the same! So I think I'm smart! I had an IQ test when I was 13 and my psychologist said that my IQ rate could grow to rates like 160! It was 120 at the time which is significantly higher than the average (87). But I feel less smart now so I don't know how my IQ changed over the years..
Okay Einstein
@Tarbosaurus 87 is the average for 13 year olds.
that into and outro are DEFINITELY going into the next "Vsauce out of context"
Yeah
Intro not into
What's vsauce?
/s
@@NickleJ you're joking, right?
/s stands for sarcasm...guess you don't spend enough time on here :P
0:17 I think Michael knows about the “Vsauce out of context” compilations
Glenn Bracy yah lol
why does every series you make sound oddly sexual like dong and michael's toys
and also the pink comic sans does not help
Yes
Maybe
I love these replies
Oui
Could you repeat the question?
Man, Micheal is so insane, Australia doesn’t even exist
Where am I then? (Having an existential crisis)
RahStylz youre in the upside-down
Tae Tae sese
As an Australian, I can confirm this is true
As an Australian I can confirm this
Thank your for having a black background, makes theater mode look a lot nicer.
and night mode :)
Ditto there brother. Why isn't Night Mode default on CZcams?
7:29 oof trash-can ruins the effect
I have a feeling because of this comment, more people have used theatre mode on this video than any other video on youtube. Congratulations.
Hoo Dini ikr
Goes to Sydney.
Spends most of the time in the hotel observing an illusion.
Just most of the time he spent in the hotel room (I assume most non-sleeping time). I guess he did not spend much time in the hotel room at all, who would? Except honey mooners.
Hell don't know if he's from the U.S. but I know my wife and I couldn't leave what appears to be the same hotel after that flight from L.A. for a whole day.
covfefe now's there's one from Houston direct on a 787. Don't know if I could do it.
There's a longer one Perth-London. And just today I was reading that they're going to start a Singapore-NY flight that's going to be the longest at about 20 hours non-stop in an A350.
the secret is to keep flying west.
Michael's intro (apr/2018): Hello!
Michael's intro (may/2019): WAAAAZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP Ding Dongers
Welcome to D!ing, the only name this channel has ever gone by.... *Stares intensely*
I noticed this effect when I was a little kid, when in front of the building I lived in was another building across the street that could be seen form the balcony. When I got further and further from the balcony towards the back of the house, that was the kitchen, I could see the the building appeared to grow and I had no idea why.
I completely lost track of the puns
I think that was the point
AfonsodelCB I liked the Banana!
Sunao Satsubatsu it says 'I am how to basic'
The Maximizier, how so?
Switching each letter to its numerical value (a=1, b=2, etc.), and then taking the factorial of each letter, and then dividing that by nC26, (n choose 26), derived the code, "My msaetr is grolufl, hial to the geart lrdd staan." While the words are not correctly spelled based on their code, I think that we can all tell the true meaning of his pun-filled soliloquy, "My master is gloriful, hail to the great lord satan."
Girlfriend: “So, where do you get your vibrators from?”
Me:
*m i c h a e l ‘ s t o y s*
Anil Kumar so people can tell that I’m talking about adult toys and not normal toys
Legoman718
He's asking why you, Lego *_man_* have a vibrator.
Because it was a joke...
Legoman718 thats how mum's perceive hahakkikkkakkqjsjs
dunno what's better:
the joke or the replies analysing the joke?
"I wood be lion if I said that today's show was not going to be elephantastic because today we're going to banana ascorbic acid paper towels tape yard stick 20 prepared slides for a microscopefully have fun."
_???_
I don't know most of what Michel/VSauce said
Its just today we are going to have fun
Can confirm i was the yard stick
How he came up with that i will never know
@@DannyBoi2112 crack
@Se Google Nutzer i just wasted 30 secs reading your comment 😡
What normal people do in a hotel room:Sex
What michael does: This iilusion is amazing
Humans evolve already
He probably did some illusion sex too though
The easiest way to evolve faster would be to have more sex, ya boob
Consider how an illusion to make things look larger in a hotel room could be useful for the other purpose?
who said he didn't orgasm
Sex with illusions.
When I was a kid. I would always walk back and forth in my room looking at the house next door from my window, because it looked like it was growing and shrinking.
*Glad to know Micheal is gonna explain to me*
u must be dumb
no u
girlsdrinkfeck I was a little kid
Haha, same
Atomic ManAnimations! Apparently you still are using that grammar
you can do "vsauce out of context" compilation just from this video
0:00 to 0:38
Hmm...
*List this to my 'Vsauce Awkward Moments'*
"Today we're gonna talk about an illusion I witnessed in Australia"
Did you mean Australia
u ok there
What
@@soviettape5311 Australia isn't real
still confused
nevermind i get it does anyone sell cyanide pills
I appear taller when I’m standing next to short people :)
Same! 😂
Prejudice!!!
I appear smaller when I stand next to normal people
@@oliverganski3509 😶
@@oliverganski3509 same im 13 and im only 5'1 im very short
Hey Vsauce, Michael here and I'm having a stroke.
Or am I?
*cue vsauce music*
That nearly killed me, I was eating.
He just confuses everyone in the world in these intros and honestly that's why I love it
Vsauce crew: Hey Michael, how weird do you want the intro to be?
Michael: yes
0:18
MichaelStevens.exe has stopped working.
Xcution Unknown [(continue anyway)] (cancel)
But *Z U C C*...
Michael, the Sydney opera house is not your toy
Sam Giles kek
Everything == Michael's toys.
or is it?
What IS a toy? *Vsauce music intensifies*
Sam Giles it is now
I know I'm a year late to the party (but I just discovered this channel)
Banana: Internet accepted unit/instrument for size measurement
Ascorbic acid=vitamin C: C sounds like see
Paper towels and tape= rolls: rolls move in one direction (while fixed to an axis) may symbolize flow
Yardstick: Larger than banana-size measurement instrument.
20 slides: many frames
So the intro seems to be talking about seeing things change size as the frame around them changes
Cool
.. i unironically believed that this is 'Vsauce but out of context' during that intro.
am i the only one scrolling through the comments trying to find an answer to what he said in the intro?
也是
why does that have likes
Brainy Tech same
No trust me your not lol
stop
Michael's boys
ANIMA 51 we are Michael’s boys
bois*
ANIMA 51 sounds nice
Michael touches boys
Michael’s другs
0:16 help google translate doesn't have the answers
He missed a perfect opportunity to show a bee every time he said be in the intro.
🐝sauce, michael here
At this point I'm just subscribed for MICHAELS
T O Y S
Mug Cylinder for watching
ive always just been here for micheal
You lost me at the beginning
m.czcams.com/video/0Tga4VXQhHI/video.html listen to this show some love by like n subscribe 🔥🔥🔥♩
I know, right?
I think he was just being weird.
a perfect shot for "vsauce out of context" compilations
Even better shot for "Vsauce even with context" compilations.
I also observed this as a kid (not on the Opera House of course). I was pretty amazed by this. I saw it again and again, took hundreds of photos of it. This video made me recollect it all
I didn't understand anything from the intro lol
Damn that opera house thing is weird. I've never noticed anything like that before.
Kerry Cronic Vlogs its not about the opera house actually it’s about the object outside the window. It can be done with anything
this illusion was created 100s of years ago by the architects of Taj Mahal...www.nationalgeographic.com.au/videos/secrets-of-the-taj-mahal/the-architect-illusion-of-the-taj-mahal-3681.aspx
That is a great illusion.
Kerry Cronic Vlogs I noticed that at school. And I figured out why in a few minutes.
YOLO 820 what is the point of your comment? I think he knows that very well from just watching the video. "Opera house thing" was just to easily refer to the illusion
Is it jus me or is the hardest thing to work out in this video, his intro????
ウケルン your eyelash looking profile pucture is evil.
Douglas Phillips not for me bc my yt has a black background and white text
Douglas Phillips lmaooo
I tried blowing your profile picture off my phone screen
Not alone.
Hey, how were your holidays?
Nice
What Did you do?
Walking in my room, forwards and backwards
Edit: Wow, this is literally True now
Or may be moving your hands forwards and backwards
Harsh Nandu he must have some long arms then
Was that supposed to be English in the intro.
No soap, radio.
Edit: Why does this have so many likes
HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHA
HAHAHA omfg 😂😂💀 I'm dying over here
OMG lol! Hahahaha XD
Bahahahahaha hillarious 😂😂😂
...can..can someone explain
This is identical to the "giant moon illusion." When the moon is at or near the horizon, it looks bigger than when it's overhead. Some people erroneously argue the thickness of the atmosphere creates a lens effect that magnifies the moon when it's low. But take some measurements with a caliper at arm's length and you'll discover the size does not change. The illusion is generated in our brain by comparative sizes: near the horizon, the moon looks huge because it's larger than buildings, trees, and mountains. Overhead, it appears smaller in the vastness of the sky because it is the only object we can see that has discernible features on it.
I know right
The Devil In The Circuit hold a piece of notebook paper at arms length. The moon will ALWAYS fit within one of the three holes
I think we need a video just to explain the puns.
I think those have moved beyond simple puns and are actually some kind of code.
I think it's an SOS.
is he kidnapped? hummm 🤔
the end was [tanks] for watching. I am willing to bet that the 'ascorbic acid' part was that it is vitamin C so it means "see"
An entire episode for each pun
The way he makes overly convoluted jokes that only his present self understands and finds thoughtful wonder in the most mundane-seeming things is an attitude I strongly resonate with
Michael: shows Sydney oprea house illusion
Me: *rents room he was in
Also me: I know what I'm doing all day
0:16 Today we're going to baNANa ascorbic ACid paPER towels TAPE yard stick, twenty prepared slides for a microSCOPEfully have fun.
*i still don't get it*
Penta Nanacpertapescope. Clearly translates to "help me"
Penta it says 'i am how to basic'
Switching each letter to its numerical value (a=1, b=2, etc.), and then taking the factorial of each letter, and then dividing that by nC26, (n choose 26), derived the code, "My msaetr is grolufl, hial to the geart lrdd staan." While the words are not correctly spelled based on their code, I think that we can all tell the true meaning of his pun-filled soliloquy, "My master is gloriful, hail to the great lord satan."
Three most used replies
I swear, the more DONGs he releases, the crazier he's getting. I think Michael is losing his mind
Mom: Why are you walking back and forth whilst looking out your window?
Intro: I would be lying if I said that today's show was not going to be fantastic because today we're going to bring in an amazing cipher planned towards make y'all stick 20 prepared slides for you hopefully have fun.
Ending: please stay curious and apply your curiosity to making the world a better place, and as always thank you all people for watching.
Thanks!
Litterally looks like a bad green screen
That intro had me in tears, im so happy people can parody themselves like that. Good job :)
You have good puns...
You have bad puns...
You have terrific puns...
And you have michels puns...
It seems we'll have to change the name of the show…
Mr Turbo When I first read your comment, it had zero upvotes. I was the first to upvote and even left a comment. Now you have 20 upvotes and counting. Your are welcome.
you are awesome Michael! I would love to meet you in person, I love all of your videos on all channels, so informative and you have such curiosity just like me, wanting to know how we fit into this universe. Keep making awesome videos, and teaching people, you are really one of my favorite channels about science on CZcams.
That was the absolute best intro I’ve ever seen
A walk down memory lane for all you hockey fans out there.
RBuckminsterFuller genius 😂
I scrolled down and saw this, just as he said that
Nagarath Assassination classroom
Mrjmoople Wrong, this is Sakata Gintoki from Gintama parodying as Koro sensei
As a hockey fan, I was hooked as soon as he said this.
What infuriates me is that he said "A plier your curiosity" when he could have said "A plier curiosity" because "er" and "your" sound similar.
@1:35 If the question truly is "Which circle looks larger" the answer is obviously "the one on the right."
My thoughts exactly.
Which circle _looks_ larger? The one on the right.
Which circle _is_ larger? They’re the same size.
5:26 Not if you're under a kid. The answer is *obviously* not so absolute, as perception isn't uniform.
what you said at the end about putting more food on bigger plates - I'd actually noticed that tendency myself, and was wondering exactly why it worked like that
I feel like DONG now is what Vsauce was two-three years ago.
It's glorious.
Did it even exist 23 years ago?
Calvin K nice
Michael has just forgot the password of his Vsauce channel
Two-three years is either 2 - 3 = -1 years or 2 * 3 = 6 years. -1 years doesn't make sense in the context of age, so I guess they meant 6 years ago ;-P
My iq dropped trying to understand the puns.
Sangheili Entertainment Mine improved when I understood (most of it)
You figured out what they meant?
Sangheili Entertainment MENSA test anyone
What did the outro mean tho?
Wart Wart
1:33 the internet has ruined how i see the one on the left IYKYK
I live in Sydney and never knew there was something called "The Sydney Opera House Illusion"... 😅
They did surgery on a grape.
@@Theniebobeanie lol
@@Theniebobeanie this is not what i expected when i clicked "replies"
but i'm so glad it was here.
This meme is dehumanizing, it truly is.
Trey Pohe haha same
I don't know how I've been watching the first 44 seconds of the video 19 times over and over but... Well. I did.
There's a hidden meaning behind it. Michael's Toys and we, the hockey fans. I know there's a link to the yardstick and the banana.
The paper towel and tape are definitely up to something and I guarantee you the lion is behind this entire ordeal.
I must understand it. I. Must. Go. Further.
I thought the two talking mice created the universe?
it's like those adult swim ARGs. "WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN"
Maybe it's something he's going to use on a future video? Like it's an experiment to see our reactions?
Or... Now hear me out. He's summoning Cthulu.
Prove me wrong.
How many footlongs are in a foot?
0:34 rip paper towel press f for respect
F
Fart
F
F
F
I’d like an episode where Michael talks about the psychological illusion where he is aware that he’s playing a caricature of himself while walking back and forth in that hotel room, but is unsure of how much of the caricature is really him and how much of it is blown out of proportion.
Teacher: the test isn’t that confusing. The test:
You are small brain
Because of the puns at the beginning, I was like "dang it, Michael, don't make me click off of this video"
You wouldn't click off anyway. Nobody clicks off Michael Stevens.
Evoo lol you right, I didn't click off
ThEy WeRe FuNnY!!
Some of them were so tortured that I lost what the hell he was trying to pun about.
What people have against puns?! I don't understand!
I'm currently sitting on the toilet with a bucket on my lap due to crippling vomit and heaving attacks. I also wildly enjoy DONG. Thank you for making my current horrible situation a little better.
Dante Caballero
I also love Dongs!
Dante Caballero Get better! Me and afterwards my girlfriend just had stomach flu or something as well. I literally know your pain!
Oh, I am sorry, hope you get well soon
magicmel02 DONG: The only channel you can find people this nice. Lol thanks man! I'm getting there
Dante I told you to stay away from the Romaine lettuce. Who the hell watches a video while dying on the bowl?
In the intro he should have think of a toy bee for the word "be"
0:58 - I distinctly recall playing with this at the age of 5. I'd walk away from or closer to a window, making distant buildings "grow larger" or "shrink" at will, and was amused at the effect.
Oh we’re getting a good Vsauce out of context video out of this
Mug cylinder so much Michael!
Abdou Menouer help me understand the joke please
i dont get it
a mug and a cylinder are both storage *tanks*
ştef Do you have an IQ of 7 billion or do you watch rick and morty???
Is this right... tanks... mugs cylinders? really?
Me: *starts video*
Michael: *Starts intro
Me: *Scrolls down to make this comment*
This is a paradox
joeseph lamorte that's what i said
I see Michael in so many videos it's just all Vsauce to me now
Hey vsauce, withdrawal symptoms from michael here
mug cylinder for that joke
And that's why I always wear super tight shorts.
Interesting thought, my man. Thanks for sharing.
Short skinny people are lucky... 😉
Lmfao perfect
The Talented Philosopher Do you like leather bound books? :v
The Talented Philosopher AYYYYY SOOTY
I enjoyed his frustration at viewers for knowing the illusion already, it reminds me of my sister's reaction to my mom's responses to her jokes 😂
At the very beginning when he showed the opera house not changing in size but the container changing, I am reminded of a very famous illusion that Alfred Hitchcock used in his movie 'Vertigo'. The shot is called the Dolly zoom where the main subject remains the same size but the relationship between foreground and subject change.
In all those "which is larger" illusions, I always wanted to make them actually have different sizes and see how people react.
How larger can I make the one that usually appears larger, until the people who usually answer that they are the same size notice? How smaller it would need to be so that the answers are balanced?
Make the "smaller" ine actually slightly bigger than the "larger" one
Yeah. I've always wanted to do one of these where the size/color is varied randomly so it's actually challenging even if you know it's an illusion. And doesn't feel like a cheap trick question.
I was about to say the food thing before you got to it. Changing plate size is a really good way of dieting because it tricks your mind into thinking you’ve eaten more as well
I suffer from micropsia and when you mention the two modes of vision that is my experience things like door knobs can appear the size of a push pin or the size of a basketball but when I reach out to open the door my hand automatically makes the appropriate shape as it seems to know how big a door knob should be no matter how big or small I am seeing it
Jesus Christ, I thought I was having a stroke
Wow I didn't know Oprah had such a big house.
Honestly her real house is probably bigger. She is a billionaire after all...
She needs room so she can move around a bit.
Its not really that big lol, its an illusion
Jonathan Fay woosh
Michael I told you a year ago I was going to mail you a package when we met in Tulsa at brain candy. Well I finally am getting that mailed out. Sorry about that. I set the box down and it got covered and then moved and I forgot. I just rediscovered it when cleaning my garage and realized I never sent it.
x9x9x9x9x9 don’t worry I don’t think he remembers either
Better late than never. A mug cylinder to you, good sir.
I dont know whether to say ok n move on or ask if youre ok...
x9x9x9x9x9 yeah yeah, guys - shout out to the channel curiosityshow
x9x9x9x9x9 No worries! I can't wait! And thank you so much.
Something interesting is that blindness induced by injury to the visual cortex doesn't necessarily stop a human from being able to "see" objects. While human with a damaged visual cortex cannot actually see the world around them, experiments have shown that some can still detect obstacles and evade them.
I noticed the same effect while traveling through a tunnel. The light from the other side remained the same size small circle of light until just before reaching the other side, when its size grew exponentially in a relatively short distance.
I love Michael's increasingly surreal introductions for these!
Even Zuckerberg doesn’t provide that much memeable content
Lmao
Tf were you even saying at the beginning
Irk
Grackle FPV i right, know?
f1 for life how do you not understand?? It made perfect sense
+jesselle lopez For quite some time I thought "ikr" stood for "I can relate". Some people mix up letters (like Grackle FPV) others are just dumb at times (like me).
f1 for life it says 'I am how to basic'
I remember finding this illusion by looking at the circular garbage company logo on the side of the truck from across my room. I glanced over once and the logo looked absolutely massive.
1:58 I uh, I need this in a Vsauce out of context.
Is anyone here injured after those puns?
Right, time to throw out all my plates and buy smaller ones.... might as well buy some smaller underwear as well ;)
Warribo Smaller underwears won't change facts bro 😂
Warribo | I will do the same thing, thanks to you😂
Ayman Alsebaey
The smaller underwear will make what's inside appear larger lol
I wear nothing, so jokes on you. Just ripped of my skin, now I am a bunch of bloody muscles. Ouch.
This is the reason I only date girls with small hands
1:40 He said, which one *LOOKS* larger, not which one is larger.
Fax
I have a fact about the opera house. If you put all of the shapes of the opera house together it will form a perfect sphere.